Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
John Siracusa on reading in the digital age
This is a fantastic article because it covers the entire history of e-books, both as content and as devices. Very well thought out and written.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Reading Isn’t Fundamental
Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella have an excellent piece in Slate on how to help your child learn to read.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Telescopic Text
Click away on the text. Expand the sentence. Have fun.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Everyone Can Read
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
keybr.com lets you test your speed and accuracy on the keyboard. I’m such a slow reader it kills my speed which is much better when I’m simply writing without the reading, like now.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Free Rice is a vocabulary game. For each word you get right they’ll donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.
Dang, where the heck do they find all these words?!
[via Amy Mindell]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 25th, 2007 No Comments »
LibriVox: acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.
The subhead says it all. Great.
[via Heather Dunbar]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 20th, 2006 3 Comments »
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
20 Roszel Rd
Princeton NJ 08540
800-221-4792
custserv@rfbd.org
www.rfbd.org
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 13th, 2005 No Comments »
With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands: “The International Phonetic Association is amending its official alphabet for the first time in 12 years.”
(Via NYT > Science.)
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Language is a Virus is a wonderful collection of linguistic tools for having fun with letters, words, and sentences as well as technique. Lots of good reading on the history of writing technique as well as words of wisdom from great writers.